us history exam 2

A major difference between Theodore Roosevelt and the presidents of the Gilded Era was:

Roosevelt was much more aggressive in his use of presidential powers.

As governor, Robert LaFollette successfully passed all of the following reforms EXCEPT:

women's suffrage at the state level.

Changes in the strategy of suffragettes in the early 1900s included:

adopting activist tactics such as rallies and political lobbying.

Leaders of the Social Gospel movement sought to:

introduce religious ethics to industrial relations.

Many progressive reformers supported prohibition legislation because:

they believed alcohol was a cause of poverty and many other social problems.

Most settlement houses were staffed by:

middle-class women.

Reformers who called for use of the Australian ballot succeeded in getting:

the right of voters to have privacy in the voting process

Reformers who focused on ending child labor faced resistance from big business and:

some poor parents who needed the extra income.

Reforms in rural areas during the early 1900s achieved all of the following aims EXCEPT:

managing to stop rural people from being drawn to urbanization trends.

The Harrison Act:

restricted the distribution and use of narcotics.

The Nineteenth Amendment:

gave women the right to vote.

The Seventeenth Amendment:

provided for the direct popular election of U.S. senators.

The main goal of the muckrakers was to:

raise the public's awareness of social problems.

Theodore Roosevelt's reform philosophy was closest to that of:

the Gospel of Efficiency.

Use of the initiative allowed reformers to:

propose legislation directly to the electorate.

When mine owners refused to meet with coal workers at the White House, Roosevelt:

made it clear that he would not use his influence to break the union.

All of the following nations belonged to the Central Powers EXCEPT:

Japan.

Even before direct American involvement, the United States was linked to the Allies' cause:

because of the valuable loans that banks had issued to Allied nations.

Germany resorted to submarine warfare:

in its effort to break England's naval blockade on trade with the Central Powers.

In August of 1914, as war erupted in Europe, most Americans:

felt that America should maintain a neutral role in the conflict.

In July, 1918, President Wilson agreed to send 15,000 troops to:

Russia.

In the Zimmerman Note, Germany promised:

that Mexico could regain lost territory in America if it joined the Central Powers.

In winning the election of 1916, Woodrow Wilson benefited from:

the belief of many voters that the Republicans were a "war party."

Major aspects of President Wilson's Fourteen Points included all of the following EXCEPT:

promotion of regulated international trade.

Of the following, which gained territory as a result of World War I?

France

The 1909 agreement, the Declaration of London, was designed to protect the rights of:

nations who were neutral in military conflicts.

The American Protective League was designed to do all of the following EXCEPT:

work for the reelection of President Wilson due to his wartime leadership.

The Committee on Public Information:

served as the foundation of the government's pro-war propaganda.

The Food Administration:

succeeded at raising farm incomes.

The Irreconcilables opposed participation in the League of Nations because they:

felt it would strengthen the power of imperialist nations.

The National War Labor Board accomplished all of the following goals EXCEPT:

keeping wages ahead of inflation.

The Red Scare was caused by all of the following factors EXCEPT:

Lenin's open threats of toppling the U.S. Empire.

The Treaty of Versailles places sole responsibility for the start of World War I on:

Germany.

The War Industries Board was established to organize all of the following EXCEPT:

the criteria for drafting soldiers.

The leader of the American Expeditionary Force was:

John Pershing.

The only nation not to approve the Versailles Treaty was:

the United States.

Which of the following was NOT one of the new countries created in Europe in the aftermath of World War I?

Denmark

Which statement about the American military in World War I is not true?

African Americans were not allowed to join either the army or navy.

A major industrial trend of the 1920s was:

the concentration of wealth in the largest firms of an industry.

All of the following were aspects of the open shop campaign EXCEPT:

the extension of collective bargaining rights for unskilled laborers.

As the nation's productivity increased:

wages were not proportionately raised.

Calvin Coolidge:

continued Harding's pro-business themes.

DuPont emerged as a powerful corporation in the:

chemical industry.

During the Harding administration, the Supreme Court

became substantially more pro-business.

Effects of the Great Migration included all of the following EXCEPT:

ending housing and job discrimination in the North.

Effects of the automobile industry's growth included all of the following EXCEPT:

reducing the use of assembly-line production.

In an effort to expand markets and avoid foreign tariffs, U.S. companies:

increasingly became multinational corporations.

In the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the U.S.:

renounced aggression and condemned war.

Jazz had its roots in ________ music.

African American

Politicians stopped supporting women's reform issues:

when they realized women were not voting as a bloc.

Proponents of welfare capitalism believed that:

corporations could undercut unions by providing certain benefits.

Several "sick" industries experienced all of the following problems EXCEPT:

 

high corporate taxes.

Suburbanization in the 1920s:

was made possible by the success of the automobile.

The Harlem Renaissance:

 

featured some of the greatest literature, music, and visual art of the era.

The National Origins Act of 1924 was aimed at limiting the immigration of:

southern and eastern Europeans and Japanese.

The Republican presidents of the 1920s:

 

emphasized the importance of business interests.

The Scopes Trial revealed fundamentalists' discomfort with:

evolutionary science.

The Sheppard-Towner Act:

provided federal funds for infant and maternity care.

The term ________ refers to a situation in which a few large corporations control an industry.

oligopoly

Which group would have not been strong supporters of prohibition?

immigrants in urban ethnic areas

Which of the following was not a specific requirement for joining the Klan in the 1920s?

 

middle class or above

Which statement about industry in the 1920s is not true?

Businesses rejected any implementation of Taylor's scientific management.

Which statement about living patterns in the 1920s is not true?

The majority of Americans still lived in rural areas.

Which statement about the Harding administration is not true?

 

The open shop movement was opposed by Harding's top advisers.

Which statement about the Ku Klux Klan is not true?

 

The Ku Klux Klan's membership was restricted to whites of any ethnic background.

"Court packing" refers to FDR's proposal to:

assert more presidential control over the makeup of the Supreme Court.

A significant shift in voting demographics occurred in the 1930s when:

blacks shifted their loyalties from the Republicans to the Democrats.

All of the following statements about Eleanor Roosevelt are true EXCEPT:

despite her active role, she did not become involved in lobbying Congress.

All of the following statements are true about the Works Progress Administration EXCEPT:

despite its good intentions, it provided few jobs for Americans.

All of the following were causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT:

a drop in agricultural production in the mid-1920s.

As leader of the PWA, Harold Ickes insisted that:

blacks should receive relief jobs in proportion to their share of the population.

Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in 1932 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Roosevelt had announced the specifics of his New Deal package of legislation.

Franklin Roosevelt's first goal as president was to:

strengthen the faltering bank industry.

Huey Long felt that FDR should:

 

enact wider social welfare programs.

In the early years of the Depression:

foreign markets for American goods shrank.

In the first years of the depression, personal income:

dropped by more than half.

Militant laborers challenged traditional labor leaders by forming the:

Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Most southerners supported the Tennessee Valley Authority because it:

brought jobs and modern conveniences to an impoverished region.

On Memorial Day in Chicago in 1937:

police fired on strikers and their families, killing 10 people.

One of Herbert Hoover's few relief measures was creation of the:

Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

Section 7A of the National Industrial Recovery Act:

guaranteed workers the right to collective bargaining.

Social effects of the depression included all of the following EXCEPT:

higher divorce rates.

The Agricultural Adjustment Administration attempted to:

raise farm incomes by attacking overproduction.

The Bonus Army:

was dispersed by troops under the command of General Douglas McArthur.

The Indian Reorganization Act:

guaranteed religious freedom, and halted the sale of tribal lands.

The Securities and Exchange Commission was created to regulate:

 

the stock market.

The Social Security Act:

established federal responsibility in providing social welfare.

The ________ received the most New Deal money on a per capita basis for welfare, relief, and loans.

West

The election of 1936:

revealed that an overwhelming number of Americans supported FDR and the New Deal.

What occurred on "Black Tuesday"?

 

A stock market crash wiped all the gains of the previous year.

What were Hoovervilles?

They were squalid collections of shacks where the homeless of America's cities lived.

Which statement about conditions for African-Americans during the depression is true?

Blacks were generally the first workers to be fired and the last to be hired.

Which statement about women during the Great Depression is not true?

Women were not included in the NRA's minimum wage requirement.

Which statement about women during the depression is not true?

 

Firing women usually opened up more job opportunities for men.

Which statement best summarizes protest movements in the early years of the depression?

Protesters came from a vast range of social, political, and economic interests.

The Populist Party supported doing which of the following?

implementing a graduated income tax

Frederick Winslow Taylor’s management system was designed to make industry more efficient by doing which of the following?

increasing the productivity of workers

Which of the following had the greatest effect on changing the role of middle-class women in U.S. society during the Second Industrial Revolution?

Women were actively involved in reform movements to help laborers.

What was among labor unions’ successes in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

securing minimum wages

Which of the following is an example of a positive U.S. government response to unions in their earliest stages?

the formation of the U.S. Department of Labor